Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word from the Sponsor. Noted, after seven months, was the fact that Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman Daniel J. Flood got printed in the appendix of the Aug. 21 Congressional Record (circ. 42,400) a lengthy advertisement for Diplomat cigarettes (manufactured in Wilkes-Barre). Last week, after his fellow Congressmen began receiving "reprints" courtesy of the manufacturer, nonsmoking Daniel Flood allowed as he had no objection to use of the Record to reprint ads: "I see nothing wrong...
...France could pull its ships out of NATO unilaterally, asked NATO officers, what was to prevent Bonn from one day deciding to deny NATO the twelve West German divisions that are the keystone of NATO ground strength? "The French aren't acting like allies," snapped one Western diplomat. "If everyone can come and go as he pleases, we don't have an alliance." Actually the French had previously pulled out pledged NATO divisions to fight in Algeria without a by-your-leave, and on other occasions-including the U.S. transfer of the Sixth Fleet during the Quemoy crisis...
...prospects at a miai, or a meeting arranged with a view to a possible match. One candidate is said to have been the son of a soap-company president; reportedly he backed away, declaring Michiko's personality "too cold." Michiko seems to have been drawn to a Japanese diplomat and was disappointed when he was sent to a post in Europe. He wrote her long, graceful letters dealing mostly with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, at a time when she was reading Steinbeck and Faulkner. Asked Michiko crossly: "Does he think I am still a child...
...Gold Coast awash with well-heeled vacationers, so everybody follows the trend to ever more expensive entertainment. From the Roney Plaza near the foot of the beach, north past the Versailles, the Eden Roc, the Sherry Frontenac and the Americana, all the way to the spanking new Diplomat, the competition rages. Cadillacs crowd the highways; minks and white fox stoles topped by teetering hairdos fill ornate halls such as the Eden Roc's Pompeii Room, which looks (in Comic Joe E. Lewis' phrase) as if it had been "designed by Frank Lloyd Wrong." On the stages...
PRIX GONCOURT. Hardly anyone had heard of the winning book, Saint-Germain, ou la Negotiation, before the award was announced, but the prize assures a sale of 100,000 copies. Written by Francis Walder, a retired Belgian artillery officer turned minor diplomat, Saint-Germain is a diplomat's reconstruction of the negotiations that led up to the peace of Saint-Germain, the temporary truce between French Huguenots and French Catholics before the St. Bartholomew Massacre of 1572. "One can understand his wanting to write the book," sniffed one critic who struggled through it, "but what one cannot understand...